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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pattern Recognit. 2016 Sep 22;63:710–718. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2016.09.031

Table 1.

Notations used for the vessel recovery process.

I Grayscale image
ρ 1 Smallest radius of all the vessels
ρ 2 Largest radius of all the vessels
ms Median filtered I by small scale kernels
ml Median filtered I by large scale kernels
First order finite difference approximation to gradient operator
||·|| Euclidean distance
Morphological dilation
Morphological erosion
sph 1 Spherical structural element of radius 1